The Russellville City Council must not be long-time residents of Pope County or they would remember the flood of Dec. 13, 1982. Over 14 inches of rain fell in one day and over 17 inches of rain over a two day period.

The city's water works pumps were flooded. Water water everywhere and nary any to drink! If they think that filling in the North Phoenix site with a few feet of dirt will protect the new aquatic center in a flood plain they are sadly mistaken.

Just ask the Midwest folks how many 100 year and 500 year floods they have have in the last 20 years. We are just one stalled tropical depression away from another catastrophic flood event. And the tax payers will have to pay for the city council's mistake.

Anonymous

**Note: Upon further research, The Courier has determined the correct date of the flood to be Dec. 3, 1982.

We are just one stalled out storm away from a catastrophe. It seems like every Mayor we have had won their position with the idea they were going to solve Russellville's flood issue, but they just build out of control and allow contractors to do the same. Instead of solving an issue we add to the problem by displacing more water, creating more runoff. In truth, the flood problem is not Russellville's own but a shared responsibility with the US Army Corp, because of the creation of Lake Dardanelle and the dependence on the pumping station. The solution will be through a joint operation and cooperative project designed by them. With the elevation of the lake compared to the elevation of Downtown Russellville one could in vision a San Antonio Water Walk through our own revitalized downtown. By utilizing Whig Creek, which flows into the river below the dam and is in need of more water, and connecting it to Prairie Creek by a Canal along the DR Railway the City could gravity drain all of its drainage and not rely on the pumping stations. In fact you could actually release water at the pumping station and control the flow through drainage network and down to something more than just a slack water harbor, but actually have a lockable port.

P.S. We have had way worse floods than 82, try 57, it put 5 foot of water downtown and that's pre lake.

Do you really think the current administration cares about a little thing like flooding? They just know they are going to build a big expensive toy house for the elite of Russellville at the expense of "all" the tax payers of the community! Don't we all think that they mayor and council should tell us how much this boondoggle will end up costing us? Or is that not for us to know? Why the hurry to get this and a few other big projects started? It's still laughable that they think most of us did not know where they were going to build this big ole hot tub. Oh well, it's not their money, it's just the good ole tax payers who get stuck with the bill for projects that are not for all the people of the community but for a select few...